I've only had them a few times, I haven't experimented much but you can use them in a lot of different ways. They are dry, and reconstitute soaked in warm water (or broth) in 10 minutes. There are a lot of recipes out there if you google soy curls. They're better than a lot of other dried soy products because they're from the whole bean, not processed soy guts, and the taste and texture is better.

Tonight I fried some onion, added the curls to the pan and after a few minutes threw in a bunch of southern fried tofu coating mix (similar to the recipe in Vegan Vittles). It was amazing! And so easy. The coating stuck right to them without having to dip them in flour and then soured soy milk first, like I usually do for southern fried tofu.

Oh, I see. "To keep fresh." Hm. I've had them in a giant rice container I got from the Japanese supermarket for, uh, six months? It doesn't seem to have done them any harm. It is airtight, though, so maybe that helps...

Anyway, we've been eating them and haven't gotten sick. Maybe we're just lucky.

Oh, I see. "To keep fresh." Hm. I've had them in a giant rice container I got from the Japanese supermarket for, uh, six months? It doesn't seem to have done them any harm. It is airtight, though, so maybe that helps...

Anyway, we've been eating them and haven't gotten sick. Maybe we're just lucky.

i never noticed that about them either and ours sit in the cabinets with the rice and beans and such. i think you should be fine (and we have yet to get sick as well), but next time we get soycurls i'm gonna stick 'em in the fridge. learned something new today. thanks, everyone!

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The last time we bought 12 pounds of them we somehow missed the part about storing them in the fridge. I had transferred them to gallon-sized storage bags and by the time we got to the last 2 bags they had definitely gone bad. They had an off smell to them and once reconstituted they got very sticky and didn't taste right. Before I realized they were bad I tried to squeeze the water out of them after they plumped up and the stickiness just would not wash off my hands. It was really gross. This time I put them in the fridge (and I put 2 bags in the freezer because I had room there) and so far so good!

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